An Enigma

Setting aside whether I should have parted with £1.49 for this (especially as at some previous time it had been sold for 19p)…I wonder what this object is about. Who was responsible for it and why? Was it on the way to becoming something other than useless when the process was interrupted? And why was B. A. Robertson anyway?

Maalam Azouz Soudani

Essaouira, 6. 12. 14….Maalam Azouz Soudani playing, I think, the gimbri in a cafe in the Medina.

A dispatch from Essaouira.